The Antioch Police Department has agreed to sweeping reforms to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from a 2022 scandal ...

José Garza touted an unusual approach to resolving charges against an Austin officer, but the conditional dismissal is prompting questions about accountability and voluntary change inside APD.

When George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer five blocks from her home, Nichole Subola visited the site of his death again and again, trying to wrap her mind around it. Police reform ...

The tragic death of Bilal Abdullah at the hands of law enforcement presents an important test of the police accountability reforms of 2021, as to whether the mechanisms are sufficient to hold police ...

The spring of 2020 was an extraordinary time for Colorado’s legislature. The pandemic forced lawmakers to break for two months as they worked out safety procedures, and when they finally returned to ...

A coalition of community organizations and residents has sent an open letter to Mayor Randall Woodfin, Birmingham Police Chief Michael ...

BALTIMORE — Facing community pressure amid investigations into the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 and the rogue operation of the Gun Trace Task Force in 2017, Brandon Scott, then-City Council president ...

Seattle's council greenlights a new police contract amid public concerns over accountability and community safety measures.

Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Alison Hernandez is asking residents across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly how ...

Civilian oversight of law enforcement is dying. Not in statute, not in mission — but in impact, in execution, in public faith. What began as a bold democratic intervention into the secretive world of ...

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A careful approach starts by acknowledging limits. State policing will not automatically reduce insecurity. Decentralisation does not equal justice. Nigeria does not merely need the right structure; ...